BDS official dies while defusing bomb in Peshawar

[Leader]

The official, identified as Hukum Khan was defusing a bomb, recovered by the police on a tip-off.



PESHAWAR: A senior officer of the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) was killed on Friday as he attempted to defuse a device recovered in Sheikhan village in the jurisdiction of Badhaber in Peshawar, Express News reported.
Bomb squad veteran Hukam Khan, aged in his late 50s, successfully defused one device but was killed when a second one exploded as he tried to make it safe. Three police officers were wounded in the blast.
“The bomb planted at the roadside exploded when Khan was trying to defuse it,” Khurshid Khan, a senior police officer in Peshawar told AFP.
An intelligence official said Khan defused the first improvised explosive device (IED) but was killed while attempting to defuse the second.
Khan was shifted to Lady Reading Hospital after the explosion took place, while the police have surrounded the area.
President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday told the UN General Assembly that the country has lost more than 7,000 Pakistani soldiers and policemen, and 37,000 civilians as a result of terrorism in the country since the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
Earlier on September 24, a bomb planted on Frontier Road was defused by the BDS police in Sheikhan village.
The police was informed about the bomb, following which they cordoned off the area, diverting traffic from the road.


BDS official dies while defusing bomb in Peshawar – The Express Tribune

Salute and may Allah be pleased with him.

 

[Icarus]

RIP to the brave man! Hats off to the men from our Bomb Squads, they have access to none of the required tools to perform their jobs as mandated but with a simple pair of pliers they risk their lives on a daily basis so that we may live in a safer country.

 

[Leader]

Hate those who eat funds and put our men at service of nation in danger !!!

 

[mr42O]

no saftey at all

 

[Leader]

no saftey at all

yeah its pathetic !!

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Rest in peace......

 

[RISING SUN]

No matter which nationality,these brave souls very rare & we should provide adequate security to these specialist people against bombs. RIP to the dead man,may his soul rest in peace & GOD bless his soul with peace.

 

[MilSpec]

Condolences to his family and loved ones. Very very sad news, may his soul rest in peace.

 

[Solomon2]

RIP to the brave man! Hats off to the men from our Bomb Squads, they have access to none of the required tools to perform their jobs as mandated but with a simple pair of pliers they risk their lives on a daily basis so that we may live in a safer country.

Apparently their lives and training are of so little merit that Pakistan, despite near-daily terror threats, doesn't feel it needs to spend a few thousand dollars on equipment like this:

A Sailor assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 11 greets students at Mar Vista Middle School while wearing a bomb suit during a community service project.

It may make Pakistanis feel good to honor their dead but wouldn't the man's family prefer him alive instead?

 

[Icarus]

Apparently their lives and training are of so little merit that Pakistan, despite near-daily terror threats, doesn't feel it needs to spend a few thousand dollars on equipment like this:

A Sailor assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 11 greets students at Mar Vista Middle School while wearing a bomb suit during a community service project.

It may make Pakistanis feel good to honor their dead but wouldn't the man's family prefer him alive instead?

The GoP is a few months away from defaulting, I don't think we can afford this stuff any more.
BTW, even larger Bomb Squads like Karachi that do have access to these suits choose not to use them because:

1) It hinders movement.
2) It takes too much time to suit up.
3) It will hardly be of much help in a point zero explosion.

These guys go in, lie on their belly and do their stuff. In Bajaur, half of the entire 12,000 deployment was either bomb squad qualified or had achieved qualification in the field. We had about 20 Ballistic suits, on our busiest day we dealt with over 180 IEDs and not one of them in a ballistic suit.

 

[Solomon2]

The GoP is a few months away from defaulting, I don't think we can afford this stuff any more.

You know perfectly well that the Pakistani military and its "agencies" get first call on everything. You guys have been starving the police of equipment and (through intervention in the legal process) effectiveness for decades.

 

[Icarus]

You know perfectly well that the Pakistani military and its "agencies" get first call on everything. You guys have been starving the police of equipment and (through intervention in the legal process) effectiveness for decades.

You do realize that the Police is a provincial concern and the Army is a Federal one, if the Army could have manipulated budgets to it's favour it would be in the Federal and not the provincial. Secondly, the Army certainly didn't starve the FC or the Rangers which is also a Federal concern under the MoI. Thus your argument is flawed.

Apparently this guy had friends in the Army and escaped the "Starvation":

 

[Dethcheez]

Apparently their lives and training are of so little merit that Pakistan, despite near-daily terror threats, doesn't feel it needs to spend a few thousand dollars on equipment like this:

A Sailor assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 11 greets students at Mar Vista Middle School while wearing a bomb suit during a community service project.

It may make Pakistanis feel good to honor their dead but wouldn't the man's family prefer him alive instead?

You embarrass me with your disrespect.

 

[Solomon2]

You embarrass me with your disrespect.

I respect the BDS expert for attempting to disarm the device without proper equipment. You must explain to me why I should respect the nation who denied him such equipment. Death via a small explosive device is something preventable; thus, it is something for you, as a Pakistani, to deservedly be embarrassed about, is that not so?

You do realize that the Police is a provincial concern and the Army is a Federal one, if the Army could have manipulated budgets to it's favour it would be in the Federal and not the provincial.

An interesting claim.

 

[Icarus]

I respect the BDS expert for attempting to disarm the device without proper equipment. You must explain to me why I should respect the nation who denied him such equipment. Death via a small explosive device is something preventable; thus, it is something for you, as a Pakistani, to deservedly be embarrassed about, is that not so?

Born into America, I doubt you would ever know the problems of a nation which cannot have everything they want and need.